New Haven, Connecticut, and is now the assistant of Miss Collins
at the Grand River Station.

Miss Collins writes of her: "Josephine is very much interested
in her work. She said to-day, 'I wish every one interested in
Indians could come here and stay long enough to see how the
foundation _ought to be laid_, and how much better off our
native teachers, Elias and Wakanna, are with the Bible knowledge
they have without the English, than the Indians are who speak
English and are without Christ.' She knows, for her people are
largely godless but English-speaking."

_My Dear Friends_:

We have been so busy getting ready for Christmas that we have had no
time to write to our friends. Miss Collins told the Indians on Sunday
last that we were going to have a tree and wanted all the Indians to
come, the real old ones as well as the young men and women. She told
them of how our Saviour was born on Christmas day, how the people came
and gave him gifts, and we, in remembering his birthday, would give them
little gifts. The next day, a very old woman came to the school-house
and told Mary (that is the native teacher's wife) that she heard we were
going to have a "Ghost feast" and give away everything we had, so she
thought she would come and ask for one of the school-room lamps for fear
she might not get it if she waited, as there would be so many people to
get the things, and she needed a lamp very much.

Doesn't that sound like an Indian? I was very sorry the poor woman did
not get the lamp.